Comments on: ASUS Eee PC 1201PN Ion 2 Pine View netbook official http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-1201pn-ion-2-pine-view-netbook-official-0276292/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Mon, 14 May 2012 15:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Alex Anastasi-Hill http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-1201pn-ion-2-pine-view-netbook-official-0276292/#comment-62321 Alex Anastasi-Hill Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:23:11 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=76292#comment-62321 ooh man, tough decision. if you are happy with the performance of your current netbook, which i do like the specs of, then this won’t make a huge huge huge difference. It seems like battery life is the biggest and then maybe a 20% boost in graphics? the n450 isn’t massively better than the dual core 330 from benchmarks i remember.
price i bet will be like $550+ since the dreambook lite starts at $450 and $550. it has ion 2 but it ships from Australia so it costs too much anyways
http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/configure.asp?c1=3&c2=12&id=3150

If you can get $350 for your 1201n or a rebate, id resell. your current 1201n also probably has 250gb hard drive while this has 160gb apparently. ill stay informed!

]]> By: Sergio Islas http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-1201pn-ion-2-pine-view-netbook-official-0276292/#comment-62269 Sergio Islas Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:52:49 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=76292#comment-62269 Awe, I’m too disappointed.
I’ve just got the previous (current) generation 1201n Eee PC about three weeks ago. It is true that the battery drains out too fast for a net book, but I preferred to remain indulgent with such an issue. That did not stop me from doing some minor tweaks with the computer.
So as soon as I got it I decided to to max out the RAM to 3 gigabytes. That improvement did not extend the battery life at all but rather allowed me to have a more responsive and agile computer. The 1201n Eee PC was already fast on its stock layout, so you can figure out how much improved the computer ended up after the memory upgrade . That way, I would be able to do even more stuff during the battery’s short life span.
This advantage, added up with its Dual-Core Atom 330n processor, a matching ASUS(tm) DVD combo drive I was offered as a deal, and the high definition nVidia(tm) Ion graphics GPU made my computing experience a bliss.
So now, three weeks later, I really get turned down because I get the feeling that my shiny new computer is on its way to become obsolete sooner than I expected. I was already figuring it out somehow. The platform that the 1201n sports (Atom 330n+Ion) has been around since late 2008, but only made its debut in laptops in late 2009. According to Amdahl’s law it means that its 18 month period to become surpased by a newer product was about to come, yet no news or rumors were up to the date I purchased the computer.
And also, the questions coming to my mind are; how better will the new 1201pn will be compared to the old (current) one? Will it be worth its price tag compared to what it wil offer? Did I made a wrong choice when I spent my bucks on this 1201n, the one I am using to write this lines? Did I waste my money at all?
I just hope I wont regret my purchase soon because I already had big expectations for this machine. Technically, it looks like the new computer is going to be not just an update but an entire replacement.Now that the new kid in town (the 1201pn) is right at the turn of the corner, it looks like I made a quite rushy decision on picking this boy (the 1201n).

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